This new release is the occasion to remind the roots of reggae label and distributor, VP Records. It began in 1958 when Vincent and Patricia Chin founded their store Randy’s Records. Four years later, Vincent moved at 17 North Parade in Kingston, and began recording local artists in the upstairs rooms of his shop. The new studio based in the heart of Kingston was known as Randy’s Studio 17. Chin recorded most of the prominent singers and bands in Jamaica ; Randy’s was the place to be in the island from 1969 to 1976, as author Steve Barrow explained in Rough Guide to Reggae. In 1979, the Chin family moved to New York and opened VP Records, a combination of their first name initials.14 years later, as the business flourished, they launched the VP label. Today, it’s the biggest reggae imprint of the disc industry working with most of the leading artists from roots to dancehall.